Google has announced the release of the source of an old OCR software called Tesseract in source. "In a nutshell, we are all about making information available to users, and when this information is in a paper document, OCR is the process by which we can convert the pages of this document into text that can then be used for indexing."
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It's licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See http://tesseract-ocr.cvs.sourceforge.net/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/RE...
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...I haven't had a chance to look at the potential of the code here, but could this be leveraged to provide another string to the bow of desktop search? OCR of images (png, jpg, gif etc) by Beagle would be fantastic - picking out signs and all sorts of text would be a sweet feature! 
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"The University of Nevada in Las Vegas".
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It's The University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Apache 2.0 license ... interesting. It's nearly as flexible as the BSD license in terms of what it permits.
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And in the meantime, I'm interested in seeing who grabs the technology and runs with it and what interesting projects it spawns.
Edited 2006-09-01 21:16
